We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Milton Friedman

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Milton Friedman

He moves fastest who moves alone.

Milton Friedman

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Milton Friedman

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

Milton Friedman

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

Milton Friedman

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

Milton Friedman

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Milton Friedman

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

Milton Friedman

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Milton Friedman

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

Milton Friedman